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hazel-leaf, higher and beyond, cut across its middle and rolled spirally, in 

 form of a pendent tassel, is the work of a small caterpillar, which becomes 

 a variegated, greenish Moth. To the left, on a spray of elder, is a walking- 

 branch caterpillar, of the Swallow-tailed Moth (Ourapterixsambucaria), sus- 

 pended for transformation, in a cradle composed of silk and pieces of leaf. 

 On the other leaves of the same shrub, a "Leaf-Miner" and a "Leaf- 

 Koller,".both Moth caterpillars, have.exerpised, their respective crafts; a 

 white serpentine track marks the presence of one, a scroll with silken 

 holdfasts that of the other. On the top of the wall, and composed of 

 grains 'thence detached, are two little pyramids, built and occupied by tiny 

 caterpillars called " Stone-masons," from the material thus employed 228 



11 Head amons/st caterpillars of his craft.' 1 ' 1 



, the Master-Carpenter of Moth Operatives, on the look-out for business 

 in heart of oak and willow . . 251 



31. A SUMMER DATS DREAM. 



Seated on the stripped willow-branch to the left, is the grotesque caterpillar 

 of the Puss Moth (Cerura mmila), the Moth itself being figured beneath. 

 Below appears the singular masked larva of a Dragon-Fly. The centre of 

 the foreground is occupied by a Dor or Clock-Beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius). 

 To the right appear the head and shoulders of another common insect of 

 the same order the Oil Beetle (Proscarabm) ; and above and between 

 these; with wings extended, is a Devil's Coach-horse, or Eove Beetle (Sta- 

 phylinus olens.} Attached in sphinx-like attitude to the right-hand branch, 

 is the beautiful caterpillar of the- Privet Hawk-Moth (Sphinx Ligfustri) 2152 



" That victim no idle fly." 

 A giant in augmented bulk takes vengeance on his enemy of the broom . 271 



32. FAIR AND FIERCE. 



The three beautiful and rapacious insects forming the subject of this vignette, 

 are Dragon, Scorpion, and Lacewing Flies. The first, a small and common 



